Physical AI Startup Limitless Lands $20M to Automate CNC Programming

What happened: Limitless Labs, formerly Limitless CNC, raised a $20 million Series A co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg, with Grove Ventures, Meron Capital, and Kinetica participating. The company builds an agentic AI platform for CAD/CAM in mechanical manufacturing.

Why it matters: It has moved from pilots to production with Blue Origin, Cadillac F1, Sandvik, and Iscar, cutting CNC programming time by up to 50%. The platform is ITAR-compliant and can run on AWS GovCloud.

Industry context: The company cites a manufacturing talent gap, with 409,000 positions unfilled and a shortfall projected at 1.9 million by 2033. Its foundation model is trained on metal-cutting physics and CAD geometry, and its agent works inside Mastercam, NX, and Creo. The firm has raised $27.3 million to date.